Detect and Respond to API Threats With Upwind

Apr 01, 2025

We are thrilled to introduce the future of API security with real-time, advanced API threat detection. As API-driven architectures continue to evolve, organizations need proactive, intelligent defenses that move beyond traditional detection methods. Upwind’s latest innovation represents a shift toward real-time, runtime security – ensuring threats are identified and mitigated before they can impact critical systems. In today’s digital landscape, APIs are integral to the seamless operation of modern applications, facilitating communication and integration across diverse software systems. However, API communication also introduces potential security vulnerabilities and the need for real-time, runtime detection of API threats.

With Upwind’s newly released API threat detection capabilities, organizations can now detect API threats in real time — providing real-time protection against emerging threats.

Key Features of Upwind’s API Threat Detection

Screenshot of a cybersecurity platform interface displaying threat detections. The left panel lists threats, and the right section shows a network diagram of API command injection threats and details, including affected resources and threat levels.

Upwind’s API threat detection capabilities provide advanced detection and response, including:

Real-Time Monitoring: Leveraging telemetry from Layers 3, 4, and 7, Upwind actively monitors and visualizes resource communication. Upwind continuously monitors API traffic, ensuring immediate detection of any unusual activity. This proactive approach allows organizations to swiftly identify and address potential threats, maintaining the integrity of their systems.
Cloud Baselines: Employing advanced machine learning, Upwind analyzes API traffic patterns to identify anomalies that could indicate potential security threats. This activity-based analysis allows organizations to detect sophisticated attacks that might evade traditional security measures.
Automated Response: Upwind’s automated workflows and deep root-cause context enable streamlined responses to threats. This allows organizations to minimize potential damage with faster responses, while also reducing the operational burden on security teams.
Customizable Policy Scope: Upwind gives organizations the ability to customize threat detection policies and align them with their unique security needs. Users can modify policy attributes, including setting custom parameters, to align with their specific security requirements and operational workflows.
Detection of Advanced GenAI Threats: In addition to monitoring for API threats, Upwind secures environments from advanced GenAI threats. Upwind does this by providing tailored GenAI threat detections and dynamic baselining capabilities, automatically monitoring for abnormal communication and alerting to suspicious or malicious activity.

By leveraging these capabilities, organizations can ensure real-time, prioritized API threat detection and streamlined responses to those threats.

Upwind’s Cloud Application Detection & Response (CADR)

Upwind’s API threat detections are a part of the platform’s broader Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR) capabilities, an evolution beyond traditional Cloud Detection and Response (CDR). By incorporating API security into a unified CADR framework, Upwind delivers a forward-looking approach to cloud security that integrates real-time telemetry and proactive defense mechanisms. – providing a comprehensive, unified approach to cloud security.

Screenshot of a threat detection platform showing API SQL Injection details. It includes a color-coded overview map connecting various security elements, a list of incidents, and threat details with alerts and status indicators on the left sidebar.

Upwind delivers deep CADR capabilities, representing the next evolution beyond traditional Cloud Detection and Response (CDR). As industry experts like James Berthoty emphasize, modern cloud security requires more than just detecting threats—it demands proactive, application-aware response mechanisms. By leveraging real-time telemetry from Layers 3, 4, and 7, Upwind enables security teams to correlate network, transport, and application-layer data for comprehensive attack detection and mitigation. This approach ensures threats are not only detected but also contextualized and responded to in real time, addressing the full scope of cloud-native attack vectors. By integrating data from cloud logs, real-time workload, and application insights, Upwind proactively identifies complex attack vectors spanning multiple layers, ensuring that threats are identified and mitigated effectively.

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Upwind’s CADR capabilities provide organizations with advanced tools to proactively detect and respond to cloud-based threats, ensuring a robust security posture.

Upwind’s CADR empowers organizations with:

Real-Time Threat Detection: Utilizing high-performance eBPF sensors, Upwind monitors real-time traffic flows, enabling immediate identification of potential threats.
Comprehensive Visibility: By combining data from cloud logs (such as CloudTrail and Kubernetes audit logs) and real-time monitoring of network and API flows, Upwind offers deep insights into cloud infrastructure and API activities, enhancing situational awareness.
Accelerated Investigations: Upwind’s advanced monitoring and analysis tools empower teams to conduct investigations up to 10 times faster, streamlining threat response processes.
Reduced Mean Time to Response (MTTR): Upwind’s cloud-native response actions, workload-level forensics, and real-time API monitoring enable organizations to improve their MTTR by up to 7 times, swiftly mitigating identified threats.
Anomaly Detection with Cloud Baselines: Through continuous monitoring, Upwind establishes cloud baselines to distinguish normal from abnormal activity, facilitating rapid detection of advanced API and cloud threats.

Screenshot of Upwind security dashboard showing threat detections. On the left, theres a summary with active threats, severity levels, and status lists. The right side features a graph illustrating connections and potential threats in container activity.

By leveraging these capabilities, organizations can enhance their security measures, ensuring efficient detection and response to evolving cloud threats.

Learn More about Upwind’s Advanced CADR Capabilities

Upwind’s Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR) redefines cloud security by expanding beyond traditional Cloud Detection and Response (CDR). While CDR primarily focuses on identifying security incidents, CADR enhances this approach by integrating real-time telemetry, workload monitoring, and API security to enable faster, more accurate response actions. This holistic approach ensures that threats are not only detected but also analyzed in real time and automatically mitigated within your broader cloud security practices. By proactively identifying advanced attack vectors, CADR enables security teams to respond faster and with greater precision. Leverage Upwind’s advanced cloud and API threat detection capabilities to ensure that cloud infrastructure and APIs remain secure, reliable, and efficient.

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